You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to WIN at BASKETBALL and you're going to CREATE a WINNING culture.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go FAR ENOUGH. We are apes in every WAY, from our LONG arms and tailless BODIES to our habits and temperament.

Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my PLEASURE is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts RISE to the surface and sink back again, making WAY for SELFISH instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

The CHANCES of a person breaking through their own HABITS and SLOTH and limited mind to ACTUALLY write SOMETHING that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

I am falsely accused, WITHOUT PROOF, of USING my position for PERSONAL profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime.

I know a lot of people might not be used to that - the BILLS having a winning mentality. But that's what Sean McDermott has BROUGHT to this franchise. Winning habits. A Winning ATTITUDE.

In the frenzy, roller coaster of the season, you can PLAY up and play down. But if you're strong enough, you can change those habits and tendencies and make them into championship-type habits and tendencies. That doesn't GUARANTEE you that you're GOING to win, but it GIVES you the BEST chance. That's all I can ask for. That's all I want.

The HABITS of LIFE FORM the SOUL, and the soul FORMS the countenance.

Two quite opposite qualities equally BIAS our minds - HABITS and NOVELTY.

During the first few months of an infant's LIFE, its MANNER of taking the breast, of laying its HEAD on the PILLOW, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

That period in the late Eighties and early NINETIES was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I had so MANY bad habits that my PREPARATION was terrible: people like Steve DAVIS or Dennis Taylor were model pros.

Some rookies build BAD habits and it's not until year three, four, five that they get to be PART of a winning-type ORGANIZATION and culture.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English LETTER. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living KNOWS better than I do the HABITS of our birds.